Commercial Law, Merger, and Acquisition Team
We ensure comprehensive consultancy in the scope of acquiring of enterprises, including commercial companies and ongoing functioning of commercial law companies (including public companies) in order to facilitate running of business activity and decrease the risk connected with it. We safely carry the Client through the difficulties of the investment process and we advise in relation to conducting of restructuring processes of companies, particularly those preceding the execution of organisational and legal transformations. Our experts also advise in the scope of choosing the appropriate form of running of activity and they render a full range of services connected with establishing a chosen law entity.
Services
The Team’s scope of services includes issues such as:
Corporate law
- establishment of companies,
- elaboration and giving opinions on corporate acts: articles of association, articles of incorporation, regulations of company bodies, organisational regulations (acts regulating the internal functioning of a company),
- establishment of branches and agencies of foreign enterprises,
- making notices to the National Court Register and other registration bodies (statistic offices, tax offices, National Insurance Institution),
- preparation of agreements between partners/shareholders;
- legal assistance in creating capital groups and consortiums,
- preparation and unification of corporate acts of companies which act within capital groups,
- servicing of meetings of company bodies (including meetings of public companies)
- legal assistance in the scope of raising and lowering of the initial capital of capital companies,
- legal consultancy and legal representation in proceedings related to annulment or nullification of resolutions of company bodies;
- legal consultancy in the scope of the so-called corporate governance,
- legal consultancy in the scope of information obligations of public companies,
- legal consultancy in the scope of issue and redemption of securities,
- legal consultancy at contracts related to financial instruments (including option contracts).
Transformation, mergers, acquisitions
- legal consultancy in the process of transformation, merger, or division, preparation of the necessary documentation, legal representation in the registration proceeding, as well as consultancy and representation in proceedings connected with notifying about the intention of concentration,
- legal consultancy in the process of privatisation and commercialisation;
- legal assistance in selling of enterprises or their organised parts,
- legal consultancy in the processes of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) including preparation of necessary documents.
Liquidation, bankruptcy
- legal assistance and representation in proceedings related to liquidation of companies;
- legal assistance and representation in proceedings related to bankruptcy of companies both on the part of the bankrupt and creditor (including consultancy in the preparation of applications related to announcement of bankruptcy).
Experience
We support business entities, including capital groups and public companies, rendering continuous legal consultancy within ongoing activity and participating in numerous endeavours, proceeding, and projects.
The Team’s experience includes among other:
- representation of shareholders in the process of issue of shares of a company, which is one of the leading Polish transportation companies;
- acquisition of the Treasury shares by one of the biggest logistics companies in Poland;
- restructuring of a company, which is one of the first companies in Poland rendering financial services connected with liability trade;
- conversion of liabilities to shares and issue of the shares of an enterprise which is one of the biggest manufacturer of steel pipes in Europe;
- restructuring of a company which is the biggest worldwide manufacturer of coil chains,
- separation of non-productive property of one of the Silesian mines;
- restructuring and privatisation of one of the Silesian heat and power plants;
- transformation of companies, merging companies within a capital group, legal consultancy and preparation of a prospectus for the dominating domestic manufacturer of among other steel constructions and products for the automotive industry.
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